Because it’s 2018, we have a cabinet of buffoons who got their positions because of their sex, their race, or their sexual orientation. Anything but merit. Identity politics works so well. What a joke this Liberal government is. A very, dangerous joke.
The EU, led these days on foreign policy matters by French President Emmanuel Macron, still believes in honouring the JCPOA even as the U.S. wisely washes its hands of it. But then again, appeasement has long been the go-to policy for continental Europe. More disturbing is watching Canada adopt the Europeans’ position, holus bolus.
That is wildly inconsistent with the Liberal government’s foreign policy priorities supporting human rights and feminism. In Iran, homosexuals are hanged. Women are jailed for uncovering their hair. And dissent is crushed. On Tuesday, after Trump’s announcement, Canada’s foreign minister, Chrystia Freeland, issued a statement placing her government in opposition to the White House’s decision. “Canada supports an effective rules-based international order, and believes that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is essential to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapons capability and to ensure greater regional and global security.”